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The intel that suggests more attacks are possible, do you stand by that thinking in light of those events today? >> yeah. our combat mission in afghanistan is over for 20 years. i agree with the president's decision to withdraw and to end that mission. but we now have a new mission. en that new mission is not over. we do not leave american citizens behind in a war zone. we do not leave our friends and partners behind in a war zone. we're the united states of america. we stand by our people. we stand by our citizens. we have the strongest military in the world. over 2400 of our troops have been...

They are abandoning afghanistan and it's a horrible situation and these are guys that risked their lives working with u.s. troops and side-by-side hundreds of combat missions and just being abandoned. they are scattered throughout the providences and the onlygh place where they have a chance of getting out due to all the taliban checkpoints. by the way, these are afghans who went through the rigorous process of 18 months to two years to get an actual visa to come into the united states. so the fact that the deadline of the 31st looks bleak for them, the president's deadline needs to be the las...

Taliban. to say hear the president of the united states to say we need to work with them or trust them to usher americans to the airport, does that comport with what you not only have witnessed but what have you encountered? >> i know, i'm very, very angry because over 400 combat missions and so many different fields of combat, i have never once lost a fight. my team has never lost a fight. i don't know any marine who has lost a fight. and that includes the taliban. when we meet them face to face we crush them. we were pretty good for the past 4 and a half years at impeaching a president for n...

The airport, there's utter desperation. afghans pushing and fleegd get in and board a flight away from taliban rule. they don't believe the taliban, which today promised to be different, that women will have rights, a free press, and a general amnesty for translators who helped the u.s. military. men like tom, which is what u.s. troops called him we have been following his story for months he went on combat missions and helped american troops find and kill taliban fighters he's been waiting for his visa for four years and asked us to blur his face because today he's in hiding >> they will kill...

Action, they say, is the lack of concern. >> somebody ask of our lives. nobody ask, what your problem, nobody. >> so this us. >> this is the first time. >> reporter: outside the airport, there's utter desperation, afghans pushing and pleading to get in and board a flight away from taliban rule. they don't believe the taliban which promised to be different, that women will have rights, free press and a general amnesty for translators who helped the u.s. military. men time tom, which is what u.s. troops called him. we have been following his story for months. he went on combat missions and helpe...